Abstract for Online Program Book (maximum 150 words)
As a white settler colonial educator/poet, partnered with a diasporan Filipina activist/scholar, and schooled by Black activist challenges over more than three decades of living and working in inner city Detroit, my work seeks to learn from the margins. In this piece, indigenous Filipino wisdom in re-baptizing a local Manobo community in older traditions of dwelling on Mount Apo, provoke a re-imagination of Jesus’ own “immersion” in his local ecozone, claimed by a storm, guided by a dove, tested by rocks, as the prerequisite to resisting settler colonialism in Roman occupied Palestine.